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• Flying quiet.(quieter passenger jet)(Brief article)

  - 2007-02-01

  If you live near a deafening airport, your prayers will be answered--in a few decades. Researchers at MIT and the University of Cambridge in England unveiled a design for a quieter passenger jet. The plane's shape creates greater lift, allowing it to land at lower--and quieter--speeds,...

  Tags: England, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge

• Silent knight.(NEWS WATCH)(Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Cambridge's environmentally friendly passenger plane)(Brief article)

  - 2006-12-01

  MIT and Cambridge University researchers have unveiled the model for a silent, environmentally friendly passenger plane. This collaboration was launched three years ago "to develop a conceptual design for an aircraft whose noise was almost imperceptible outside the perimeter of an airfield in an urban environment."...

  Tags: aircraft, Manufacturing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge

• Aiding the ageing brain.

  - 2006-03-27

  Byline: Barbara Gengler Mar 27, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A new trend in medicine is the development of computer-based training programs to improve auditory...

  Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, University of Cambridge

• Books received

  - 2006-03-01

  ACEMOGLU, DARON, and JAMES A. ROBINSON. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 416. Cloth $35.00. ACOCELLA, NICOLA. Economic Policy in the Age of Globalisation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 509. Cloth $90.00, paper $43.00. AGHION, PHILIPPE, and RACHEL GRIFFITH. Competition...

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, FINANCE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sterling, U.K., University of Cambridge

• ICT And Productivity Growth - The Paradox Resolved?

  BNET - 2005-12-01

  This paper argues that the gains from ICT Information and Computer Technology at the individual business level depend upon the implementation of a range of complementary 'Investments' and organisational changes appropriate to the competitive and institutional context of particular sectors. To support the proposition a brief overview of a emerging...

  Tags: University Of Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Information And Communication Technology, Transportation, Strategy, Management

• Books received

  - 2005-09-01

  ADNETT, NICK, and STEPHEN HARDY. The European Social Model: Modernisation or Evolution? Chelten-2005. Pp. 244. Cloth $95.00. AGELL, JONAS, MICHAEL KEEN, and ALFONS J. WEICHENREIDER, eds. Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005. Pp. 228. Cloth $35.00. AGLIETTA, MICHEL, and ANTOINE REBERIOUX. Corporate Governance Adrift:...

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, FINANCE, Globalization, Innovation, M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Poverty, Princeton University, Robert, Strategy, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Books received

  - 2005-03-01

  AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK. Africa in the Global Trading System: African Development Report 2004. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 337. Paper $29.95. ALESINA, ALBERTO, and EDWARD L. GLAESER. Fighting Poverty in the U.S. and Europe: A World of Difference. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 264. Cloth...

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, FINANCE, Globalization, M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Richard, Strategy, U.K., University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Books received

  - 2004-09-01

  31NETWORK. India Infrastructure Report 2004: Ensuring Value for Money. New York: Oxford University press, 2004. Pp. 347. Paper $35.00. ADAMS, WALTER, and JAMES W. BROCK. The Bigness Complex: Industry, Labor, and Government in the American Economy. 2d ed. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. 380. Paper $24.95....

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, FINANCE, Globalization, M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Poverty, Princeton University, Robert, Strategy, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Cambridge-MIT Institute launches initiative to enhance the future of communications.

  - 2004-06-15

  M2 PRESSWIRE-15 June 2004-MIT: Cambridge-MIT Institute launches initiative to enhance the future of communicationsC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06152004 "The spreadsheet came from an apartment in Massachusetts, the Ethernet came from a copier company, Napster came from a garage, and E-Bay...

  Tags: CMI, computer, innovation, Leadership, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, U.K., University of Cambridge

• Books received.

  - 2003-09-01

  Readers of the Journal interested in reviewing one of the following titles should contact the Book Review Editor, Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith, at gawsmith@ucdavis.edu. Reviews are to be prepared according to the Guidelines for Authors, published in each issue, and available on the Journal's website, http://www.jiwlp.com. Thomas D. Beamish. Silent...

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